Australia and the Great War : identity, memory and mythology / edited by Michael JK Walsh and Andrekos Varnava.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Walsh, Michael J. K., 1968- editor.

Varnava, Andrekos, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1914-1918--Australia--Historiography.

World War, 1914-1918.

Nationalism--Australia.

Nationalism.

Collective memory--Australia.

Collective memory.

Australia--Historiography.

Australia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 274 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Carlton, Victoria : Melbourne University Press, [2016]

Summary:

Australia and the Great War explores both the immediate and long-term consequences of the war on this complex relationship, looking in particular at identity, history, gender, propaganda, economics and nationalism.This multidisciplinary collection of essays unveils the creation and subsequent [mis]use of histories and mythologies while considering the necessity and nature of both remembering, and forgetting, war.

Contents:

Intro

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Title

Contents

1 Australia's Great War: Contemporary and Historiographical Debates - Michael JK Walsh and Andrekos Varnava

Part I: Identities and Australianness

2 Red Crossing for War: Responses of Imperial Feminism and the Australian Red Cross during the Great War

3 Establishing Australian Medical-Military Expertise: The Gallipoli Landings

4 From the Boer War to the Great War: Atrocity Propaganda and Complex Imperialism at the Westralian Worker 1900-1917

5 The Enemy at the Gates: The 1918 Mystery Aeroplane Panic in Australia and New Zealand

6 Saving the Australian War Effort in 1916? Global Climatic Conditions, Pests and William Morris Hughes's Negotiations with the British Government

7 Loyalty Becoming Disloyalty? The War and Irish-Australians Before and After Easter 1916

8 'This is Against All the British Traditions of Fair Play': Violence Against Greeks on the Australian Home Front during the Great War

Part II: Memory and Mythology

9 Mustafa Kemal at Gallipoli: The Making of a Saga, 1921-1932 149

10 Dangerous Ground and Fatal Shore: Remediating Gallipoli

11 Revealing Homer, Herodotus and Thucydides in CEW Bean's Official History

12 CEW Bean's Passchendaele

13 Nationalism and War Memory in Australia

14 From Competitive Memory to Comparative Commemoration: Tom Nicholson's Palestine Monument and the Great War Centenary

Select Bibliography

Biographies of Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780522867886

052286788X

OCLC:

1493616718